Kremlin justifies Sudan murders

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HARDLINE Czech Vasil Bilak has Sudanese Communist Party and its executed leader Abdel Khaled Mahgoub for their opposition to the murderous Numeiry dictatorship.

Made in a speech to the Czech Central Committee on October 21 last year, Bilak's attack reveals the real attitude of the Kremlin leaders to the massacres of communists in the Sudan last July.

It also explains why the international Stalinist movement, including the British Communist Party, have dropped their campaign against the persecution of Sudanese communists.

Bilak is a creature of the Kremlin who has risen to prominence in the past four years by a ruthless purge of all opposition to the Warsaw Pact occupation of Czechoslovakia.

'Le CP and 'fraternal' parties.

Stalinist leader Stalinist governments resumed relations with attacked the of the Sudan CP leaders. a 'noble reaction', but based on a misunderstanding. 'It would not have been wise for the Sudan or elsewhere. influencing events by breaking our contacts with the just struggle of progressive forces.' of army officers. regime of progressive officers', Bilak said. bourgeoisie'. published extracts from his speech, dealing with the state of relations between the Czech Bilak began by trying to justify the indecent haste with which the Czech and other negative attitude' Numeiry following the trial and execution The depth He said revulsion against the killings was 'neither we nor the other fraternal parties' us to abandon our hard-won positions in to overthrow Numeiry.

'We would only have been playing the game of imperialism, which would be delighted to see us lose the possibility of By 'progressive forces', Bilak makes clear, he means Numeiry and his reactionary clique 'Sectarian' counter-revolutionary through and through.

The Sudan CP general secretary comes in for particular attack: 'The group around positions'" * were moving towards sectarian They had wrongly dared to criticize 'Numeiry's democratic revolutionary unions and crush all independent organizaNumeiry had, after all, 'overthrown a government representing the feudalists and the big Bilak makes it clear that the Sudanese Communist Party was split on this question— undoubtedly at Moscow's instigation a section of the Party's Central Committee had opposed Mahgoub's line and co-operation with Numeiry.

The other cause of the split was Mahgoub's opposition to the projected federation of the Sudan with Egypt and Libya. This was 'a divisions inside Sudanese CP is shown by Bilak's claim that were informed about Mahgoub's preparations 'Putsch' Evidently Abdel Khaled Mahgoub feared he would be betrayed to Numeiry if the Kremlin discovered his plans. He preferred to take a chance on what Bilak described as a badly-prepared putsch without the support either of the army or the masses, rather than appeal for support from Moscow and Prague.

Stalinist policy in the Middle East is For the sake of 'contacts' with the Arab bourgeoisie, the Soviet and E European Stalinists are willing to stand by and watch while their bourgeois friends murder and torture communist leaders, outlaw the trade tions of the working class.

Bilak's speech will_come as an acute embarrassment for the British Stalinists, who claim to oppose the butchery in the Sudan. What have they to say about the Kremlin's continuing policy of total support for Numeiry and Bilak's condem nation of the dead Sudanese CP leader?

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